The twilight zone visits PuritanBoard!
Meh, more like X-Files around here than Twilight Zone hahahaha.
Maybe you do not mean to be dismissive. Maybe this is your way of exhorting everyone not to be distracted?
If so, I agree and point well taken!
Otherwise, it seems unnecessarily scoffing in light of evidence viewed in many areas. There are in fact dark supernatural elements not authored by God and one way these elements could be used by the enemy is - as you seem to warn - distract us from Christ and our missions work in our lives, jobs, etc.
Again I agree and amen, brother!
I just point out that yet another way the enemy could use this to distract is to
dismiss outright that certain things could not be possible in a naturalistic way and be surprised when a believer's presupposed naturalistic explanations may one day be shown to be misguided if not mistaken.
Re: the procreation theory, allow me to quote you:
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward." (Psa 127:3KJV)
Further, He has His hand in our very formation in the womb. (Psalm 139:13, 14, 15, 16.) We humans are the glory of God, now that His Son has indwelt our nature and we are united with Him. The devil wants the glory that is only God's – the creation and giving of life.
1 John 3:1,2,3:
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
While I am not one of them myself, faithful ministers who subscribe to the procreating fallen angel theory would say nothing but Amen! ... and wonder what your point is? They do not view the hybrid-offspring as human and bearing the covenant obligation and promises God has with mankind.
So by implication you are saying yet again in a more indirect way that
To enter into physical union with humans sexually and produce offspring would require them to have human nature. Human nature is not given to them
To which I repeat how do you know that fallen angels cannot produce life? No one on the other side proposes such life is human with all covenant obligations and promises ascribed. Just that they are life.
Your presupposition seems to limit angels taking physical form and being able to do everything inherently physically possible to the assumed body. This seems to be presumptive.
Now, I do not propose therefore that the opposite of that is therefore true: it means they in fact did take on all possible physical aspects and they did procreate - this too is presumptive.
Rather I see it as a case where more data is required - and there is more data for these positions (I am looking into ziggurats currently. Don't worry, just for fun I assure you), but the full presentation of data is probably only available in eternity. I am ok with that fact personally.
To be fair, the verse that says they neither marry are or given in marriage, says the "angels in heaven." Mark 12:25, Matt. 22:30. I dont believe "fallen angels" would encompass that domain.
I agree with this. My post was only re: what was in Professor Duguid's post.
Luke 3:38. It's in Dr. Duguid's post. There, Adam is called the Son of God.
ETA: I should add, called the Son of God at the end of Luke's genealogy which contains a significant portion of the genealogy of Genesis 5.
Thanks; I missed this on my perusal looking for it.